Strachey, (Giles) Lytton
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Strachey, (Giles) Lytton (1880–1932), biographer and essayist, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; he became a member of the
Apostles and a friend of G. E.
Moore, M.
Keynes, and L.
Woolf. He was thereafter a prominent member of the
Bloomsbury Group, advocating both in words and life its faith in tolerance in personal relationships. Strachey wrote extensively for periodicals and his flamboyant
Landmarks in French Literature appeared in 1912. His
Eminent Victorians (1918), itself a landmark in the history of
biography, was a collection of four biographical essays, on Cardinal
Manning, Florence Nightingale, T.
Arnold, and General Gordon; Strachey's wit, iconoclasm, satiric edge, and narrative powers captured a large readership. His irreverent but affectionate life of Queen
Victoria (1921) combined careful construction, telling anecdote, and an elegant mandarin style. His last full-length work,
Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History (1928), is more lurid and pictorial; its emphasis on Elizabeth's relationship with her father and its effect on her treatment of Essex shows a clear (and early) debt to
Freud. Various collections of Strachey's essays, on subjects ranging from
Voltaire to the
Muggletonians, appeared during his life and posthumously.
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Running with the Woolfs.(Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity: The Last Eminent Victorian)(Book Review)
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Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity: The Last Eminent Victorian.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
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; Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity: The Last Eminent Victorian...19.95 (paper). Like its title, Julie Anne Taddeo's study of Lytton Strachey's sexual identity positions Strachey in between modern and Victorian...
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Arts: Books -Ignorance - the goal of every good historian Lytton Strachey revived the art of biography, but Mark Bostridge says it's time his ideas about people were updated; Eminent Victorians: The Definitive Edition By Lytton Strachey, foreword by Frances Partridge CONTINUUM pounds 18.99
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/23/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey. Strachey's book...a household name. "Lytton is like a newly- wedded...As Michael Holroyd, Strachey's biographer, put...70th anniversary of Lytton Strachey's death. To mark...
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Eminent domain.(The Letters of Lytton Strachey)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; THE LETTERS OF LYTTON STRACHEY Edited by Paul Levy; Farrar, Straus...every vestige of early Victoria?" Lytton Strachey asks Leonard Woolfin 1901, nearly...more freely. Now, The Letters of Lytton Strachey offers a new revelation about the...
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Lytton Strachey is best known for his wicked biographies, but his letters are a gossipy celebration of life.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/8/2006; ; 700+ words
; THE LETTERS OF LYTTON STRACHEY Edited by Paul Levy Farrar Straus...lackluster prose. But The Letters of Lytton Strachey really is almost nothing if not...of cultivated enjoyment. Today Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) is chiefly remembered...
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"This intricate commerce of souls": the origins and some early expressions of Lytton Strachey's ethics.
Magazine article from: Journal of the History of Sexuality; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...namely, Victorian studies, Lytton Strachey is best known as a sardonic and...moment when, in the mid-1940s, Strachey's reputation went into sharp...sense of the terms) learn from Lytton Strachey's brand of laughter? What ethical...
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Strachey, Lytton: The Letters of Lytton Strachey.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biography; 1/1/2006; ; 453 words
; Strachey, Lytton The Letters of Lytton Strachey. Ed. Paul Levy, assisted by Penelope Marcus. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005. 698 pp. $40.00. "He is credited with reinventing the art of biography but, according to Paul...
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Official lives: Lytton Strachey, the Queen's cabinet and the eminence of aesthetics.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 9/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; In the autumn of 1912, Lytton Strachey brooded over his plan for a series...nevertheless tended to perpetuate Strachey's authority. First, the nineteenth...definitive critique of their genre, Lytton Strachey's introduction to Eminent Victorians...
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The Letters of Lytton Strachey.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biography; 3/22/2006; 435 words
; Strachey, Lytton The Letters of Lytton Strachey. Lytton Strachey. Ed. Paul Levy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Girous, 2006. 698 pp. $40.00. "As a narrative, The Letters of Lytton Strachey is often hard to follow, in part because...
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The Letters of Lytton Strachey.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 10/1/2005; 562 words
; The Letters of Lytton Strachey. Paul Levy, editor. Viking...long gone when the baleful legacy of Strachey influenced any thinking person's...Editor of this selection admits that Strachey gave us 'our image of the Victorian...
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Giles Lytton Strachey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Giles Lytton Strachey Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was an English biographer and critic known for his satire of the Victorian Era. Lytton Strachey was born in London on March 1, 1880. He was the eleventh...
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Lytton Strachey
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lytton Strachey (Giles Lytton Strachey), 1880-1932, English biographer and critic, educated at Cambridge. He was one of the leading members of the Bloomsbury group . Strachey is credited with having revolutionized the art of writing biography...
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Strachey, (Giles) Lytton
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Strachey, (Giles) Lytton (1880–1932), biographer...tolerance in personal relationships. Strachey wrote extensively for periodicals and...T. Arnold , and General Gordon; Strachey's wit, iconoclasm, satiric edge...
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John Strachey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...His father was John St. Loe Strachey, the longtime publisher and editor...Spectator. An ancestor, Sir Henry Strachey, had been secretary to Robert...there was St. Loe's cousin, Lytton Strachey, the liberal biographer and critic...
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Strachey-Sargent, Alix (1892-1973)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...SARGENT, ALIX (1892-1973) Alix Strachey, British psychoanalyst was born...bury Group where she met James Strachey, whom she married in 1920. She...Holroyd, Michael. (1973). Lytton Strachey: A critical biography . London...
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